BEIJING, Sept. 4,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- A report from People's Daily:
The 2024 Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) is
ongoing in Beijing. Chinese
President Xi Jinping will attend the opening ceremony of the summit
on September 5 and deliver a keynote
speech.
In his speech, Xi will elaborate on the new ideas and
propositions on building a high-level community with a shared
future between China and
Africa, and announce new actions
and measures for practical cooperation with Africa.
At the FOCAC summit, China and
Africa will announce a new
positioning of China-Africa relations and a series of major
measures for jointly advancing modernization, thereby drawing a new
blueprint for China-Africa relations.
At every critical juncture, the two sides have employed
far-sighted vision and always succeeded in finding new common
ground and growth drivers. China
and Africa have both reached
critical stages in their respective development, which presents new
historical opportunities for cooperation between the two sides.
Today's China is marching
forward to realize the Second Centenary Goal of building
China into a great modern
socialist country in all respects and to advance the rejuvenation
of the Chinese nation on all fronts through a Chinese path to
modernization.
The third plenary session of the 20th Central Committee of the
Communist Party of China (CPC) was
held, sounding a clarion call of the times to open up broad
prospects for the Chinese modernization through further deepening
reform. The modernization China is
pursuing is not for China alone,
but for all developing countries through their joint efforts.
Africa is moving at an
accelerated speed toward the bright prospects envisioned in Agenda
2063, and making all-out efforts to build a new Africa that enjoys peace, unity, prosperity
and strength. African countries are experiencing a new awakening
and exploring development paths suited to their national
conditions, with a firmer determination to keep their future firmly
in their own hands. Africa,
exploring the path to modernization in an African way, is a
continent full of hope.
At a new starting point, the advantages of complementarity
between China and Africa have become more obvious and their
cooperation is marked by higher quality, greater impact, and
brighter prospects.
On the path to modernization, China has all along been a firm supporter, and
walking side by side with Africa.
China supports Africa in growing its manufacturing sector and
realizing economic diversification; China has prioritized agricultural development
and food security in its cooperation with African countries;
China and Africa are jointly cultivating talents to
support modernization with talent dividend; China is enhancing its economic and trade
cooperation with Africa through
high-level opening up to strengthen complementary advantages.
China is committed to
integrating its own development closely with Africa's development, to jointly accumulate
momentum for modernization.
While joining hands to advance modernization, China and Africa are working together to promote a just
and equitable international order, safeguard a peaceful and secure
global environment, and build an open and inclusive world economy,
so as to create a sound environment for realizing our respective
development visions, and gather strength for advancing
modernization of the world and building a better future for
humanity.
As a new model for human advancement, Chinese modernization has
shattered the myth that modernization equals Westernization.
African countries attach great importance to drawing development
insights from the successful practices of Chinese modernization and
actively exploring development paths suited to their own national
conditions.
On the path toward modernization, China and Africa draw wisdom from their respective
ancient civilizations and development practices, strengthen the
exchange of experience in governance, and deepen mutual learning of
civilizations, which will promote their common development and
prosperity.
Currently, African countries are more and more willing to
strengthen the exchange of experience in governance with
China. In response to the eager
demands from African countries, China follows the principle of "showing people
how to fish than just giving them fish." It has hosted the Seminar
on Chinese Modernization and African Development, shared with
Africa its experience in poverty
alleviation, launched seminars on Juncao industry for officials
from English-speaking countries in Africa, and offered seminars on sustainable
development for African officials.
The theme of the 2024 Summit of the FOCAC - Joining Hands to
Advance Modernization and Build a High-Level China-Africa Community
with a Shared Future, is in line with the trend of the times and
the aspiration of the people.
Taking the summit as an opportunity, China and Africa will remain fellow passengers and good
partners on the path to modernization, working together to advance
modernization and build a high-level China-Africa
community with a shared future.
China and Africa will work more closely to advocate an
equal and orderly multipolar world and universally beneficial and
inclusive economic globalization, making greater contributions to
advancing modernization of the world and building a community with
a shared future for mankind.
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SOURCE People's Daily